platform/x86: wmi: create userspace interface for drivers

For WMI operations that are only Set or Query readable and writable sysfs
attributes created by WMI vendor drivers or the bus driver makes sense.

For other WMI operations that are run on Method, there needs to be a
way to guarantee to userspace that the results from the method call
belong to the data request to the method call.  Sysfs attributes don't
work well in this scenario because two userspace processes may be
competing at reading/writing an attribute and step on each other's
data.

When a WMI vendor driver declares a callback method in the wmi_driver
the WMI bus driver will create a character device that maps to that
function.  This callback method will be responsible for filtering
invalid requests and performing the actual call.

That character device will correspond to this path:
/dev/wmi/$driver

Performing read() on this character device will provide the size
of the buffer that the character device needs to perform calls.
This buffer size can be set by vendor drivers through a new symbol
or when MOF parsing is available by the MOF.

Performing ioctl() on this character device will be interpretd
by the WMI bus driver. It will perform sanity tests for size of
data, test them for a valid instance, copy the data from userspace
and pass iton to the vendor driver to further process and run.

This creates an implicit policy that each driver will only be allowed
a single character device.  If a module matches multiple GUID's,
the wmi_devices will need to be all handled by the same wmi_driver.

The WMI vendor drivers will be responsible for managing inappropriate
access to this character device and proper locking on data used by
it.

When a WMI vendor driver is unloaded the WMI bus driver will clean
up the character device and any memory allocated for the call.

Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>
Reviewed-by: Edward O'Callaghan <quasisec@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index aede236d10f1..3af07502220a 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -384,6 +384,7 @@ ACPI WMI DRIVER
 L:	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
 S:	Orphan
 F:	drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c
+F:	include/uapi/linux/wmi.h
 
 AD1889 ALSA SOUND DRIVER
 M:	Thibaut Varene <T-Bone@parisc-linux.org>